Email Author D.L. Groover

Awards

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published March 10, 2005

  "Imperfect Score"

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2008 Stories by D.L. Groover

• See Sty of the Blind Pig

  published March 27, 2008

  In her south-side Chicago apartment, matriarch Weedy Warren (Deborah Oliver Artis) waits for her spinster daughter Alberta (Cheray Dawn Josiah)... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, Pack of Lies, Translations, Young and Fertle

  published March 20, 2008

  Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead Oh, that Peanuts gang. Dear old Charles Schulz would be spinning in his grave if... More >>

• Veteran Villain: Othello

  published March 20, 2008

  Veteran Alley actor James Black slips so completely under the skin of Shakespeare's most malignant knave, he might as well be slathered in K-Y.... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Cinderella, Pack of Lies, Regrets Only, Young and Fertle

  published March 13, 2008

  Cinderella All those little girls obsessed with Disney princess culture should go watch Houston Ballet's Cinderella. Spoiler... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: "Hello, Dolly!," "Lady," "Last Acts," "Regrets Only"

  published March 6, 2008

  Hello, Dolly! So who stuck a pin into Jerry Herman's buoyant classic 1964 musical and let all the air out? You recognize the... More >>

• The Importance of Being Earnest is Just About perfect

  published March 6, 2008

  Oscar Wilde's 1895 delicious comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, is verifiably one of theater's masterpieces. A... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: "Regrets Only," "Young and Fertle"

  published February 28, 2008

  Regrets Only After seeing Paul Rudnick's torn-from-the-headlines social satire about gay marriage, you'll know one thing for sure: Never... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Gem of the Ocean, Illyria, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Scarlet Pimpernel,

  published February 21, 2008

  Gem of the Ocean This is the first play in August Wilson's monumental ten-drama series chronicling the American black experience... More >>

• The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Sugar Bean Sisters, The Turn of the Screw, Young and Fertle

  published February 14, 2008

  The Lieutenant of Inishmore The Alley Theatre is dripping in bloody good fun, and we're not speaking in metaphor. Martin... More >>

• Gem of the Ocean is a Crown Jewel

  published February 14, 2008

  Playwright August Wilson knows how to draw in an audience immediately. It's 1904, and Citizen Barlow (Timothy Dickson) has run away from the... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Frozen, Jersey Boys, The Magic Flute, Young and Fertle

  published February 7, 2008

  Frozen The "Arctic frozen sea" of a pedophile's mind lies at the chilly center of Bryony Lavery's smart, mesmerizing... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Frozen, Jersey Boys, Love, Janis, Sugar Bean Sisters

  published January 31, 2008

  Frozen The "Arctic frozen sea" of a pedophile's mind lies at the chilly center of Bryony Lavery's smart, mesmerizing... More >>

• Attention, Opera-holics: Mozart is Coming to Town

  published January 31, 2008

  The Abduction from the Seraglio (1782) is Mozart's Broadway musical — a singspiel, as musicologists call it, i.e., a comedy... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Frozen, Love, Janis, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Veronica's Room

  published January 24, 2008

  Frozen The "Arctic frozen sea" of a pedophile's mind lies at the chilly center of Bryony Lavery's smart, mesmerizing Frozen. The... More >>

• Solid Gold: Jersey Boys

  published January 24, 2008

  The melody is instantly recognizable: "Oh, What a Night." But something's weird. The arrangement is off. It doesn't sound like beloved Frankie... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Caroline, or Change, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Sugar Bean Sisters

  published January 17, 2008

  Caroline, or Change Somewhere in between tonal poetry and contemporary opera lies Tony Kushner's admirably somber musical... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Altar Boyz, A Fertle Holiday

  published January 10, 2008

  Altar Boyz There's no accounting for taste. No show makes that clearer than the award-winning, audience-pleasing sugar cube now... More >>

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Altar Boyz, A Fertle Holiday

  published January 3, 2008

  Altar Boyz There's no accounting for taste. No show makes that clearer than the award-winning, audience-pleasing sugar cube now... More >>